KevL

You Keep It All In The Beautiful South

Listened to Born In The USA album by Bruce Springsteen the other day and it struck me that the line "our Pa's each own one of the World Trade Centers" in Darlington County wouldn't be there if the song was written today (ok, it could, but very unlikely). Similarly, Paul Simon's Kodachrome wouldn't flow out of any current writer's pen - again, there'd be nothing to stop it being written but it almost certainly wouldn't be. Last one for now, I've just heard the Beastie Boys' classic Fight For Your Right and the line 'your Ma threw away your best porno mag' probably wouldn't mean much to today's frustrated teens and their unlimited online supply of grot... Any other suggestions for lyrics or song themes that have been rendered obsolete or at least very outdated by events, the march of technology etc? Was thinking of factual reasons rather than just general change of fashions, song styles etc.

Unchained Melody The Righteous Bros and loads of others

Learning To Fly Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Lola The Kinks

Lessons In Love Level 42 (Missed earlier posting of this, sorry @Rich)

It's A Mystery Toyah

Station to Station DB

Dry Your Eyes Streets

Dizzy Tommy Roe

Hooverville The Christians

She Drives Me Crazy FYC

Too late...

Lemon U2

Lady Marmalade LaBelle

Moving On Up M People

The Gambler Kenny Rogers

All Together Now The Farm

Apeman The Kinks

Kodachrome Paul Simon

Down To Earth Curiosity Killed The Cat (Think I've used this before)

Similar to the other replies, although I heard it about guitar rather than bass, the majority of music (read: money) was the basic stuff played at the end of the neck, not much more than cowboy chords and a few simple runs.

Big Balls AC/DC